Officers

Kristi Murray Costello is Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies and the Associate Chair of Writing Studies at Old Dominion University. Costello’s research interests pertain to writing centers, writing program administration, and WAC/WID. Costello regularly teaches courses that explore the theories and histories of composition and writing centers and first-year composition. Recently, she taught writing for a multi-campus agroecology field course and co-taught an interdisciplinary special topics course on the musical Hamilton. Her co-edited collection, The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration, is forthcoming with Utah State University Press.

Beth Bensen is Associate Dean of the School of Arts, Humanities, Math, and Social Sciences at John Tyler (becoming Brightpoint) Community College. Previously, as faculty at Reynolds CC, she was the English Program Head from Fall 2015 – Spring 2019 and was the Assistant English Program Head from Fall 2011 – Spring 2015. She teaches first-year writing and advanced composition, technical writing, and literature courses. Her research interests include multimodal composing, visual and digital rhetoric, and twenty-first century literacy practices.

Derek N. Mueller is Professor of Rhetoric and Writing and Director of the University Writing Program at Virginia Tech. His teaching and research attends to the interplay among writing, rhetorics, and technologies. Mueller regularly teaches courses in visual rhetorics, composition theory, and research methods. His latest scholarly project is an open access collection he co-edited with Drs. Rachel Gramer and Logan Bearden, Radiant Figures, at the crossroads shared by visual rhetorics and writing program administration.